The City Council and The City Hall main focus has a main goal of cut CO2 emissions due to Paris Agreement and goals in European New Deal. The city is focused on green investments by local governments in the development of blue and green infrastructure, sustainable transport, closed-loop economy or sustainable construction as well as education citizens and involving them in participation and deliberative processes. The mail goals of carbon neutrality have it can be found in Climate Change Adaptation Plan until 2030 which was adopted by the City Council of Gdynia on April 24, 2019 (it will be updated – the date was not settle yet, due to COVID-19 pandemic).  City Mayor established Plenipotentiary of climate change adaptation in city, who coordinates climate actions complex vision.  In 2021 City Mayor also established Climate30 team – interdepartmental and inter-institutional municipal team is working on the issue of adaptation, which includes the City’s Mayor’s committee; Team consists 20 members of different departments and city institution involved in climate change adaptation. The city is focused on green investments by local governments in the development of blue and green infrastructure, sustainable transport, circular economy or sustainable construction as well as educating citizens and involving them in participation and deliberative processes.  

The main goals are: 

• To increase the resilience the city and to raise awareness of the citizens in relation to climate change. 
• To generate information about floods and droughts in Gdynia and its impact for local community and private sector. 

• To increase public awareness of the citizens in relation of climate change especially flood and drought risks. 
• To find collaboration method between Gdynia and private investors (developers) to incorporate water management solutions more widely. 
• Manage and use properly nationally aggregate data to city needs and actions. 

Main focus in REACHOUT, due to the location and topography of the city is mainly the occurrence of torrential rains, sudden urban floods (flash floods type), floods from the rivers, as well as floods from the sea (stormy floods), the main cause of which is wind and constantly observed sea level rise; the occurrence of strong gusts of wind and intense storms and potential landslides.  

 Main datasets are gathered in terms of: 

• Temperature – the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (national level) 
• droughts – Pomeranian Voivodeship Governor (province level) 
• Rainfall level, possible floods and city flooding – the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (national level) + Management of Roads and Greenery (city level) 

The city of Gdynia within the project, they will be looking into: 

• Gdynia’s challenges are concentrated mainly in the area related to water management, in particular rainwater management, related phenomena and their effects, such as intense rainfall, flash floods, and events with water overflow from the side of 2 rivers flowing through Gdynia.  
• Tools that will allow to comprehensively collect data in the area of water management. e.g., collect data, forecasts (as well as long-term prognosis/ scenarios) of rainfall or phenomena that affect urban floods, discharge of water from rivers, mapping areas at risk of flooding, water excess (taking into account the fact that the city does not know what are the exact possibilities of collecting water by the municipal sewage system) 
• The second topic is related to mitigation, the implementation of the goal of achieving city’s climate neutrality – tracking the city’s foot print.